samba - Mar 2025 - Switching to 64 bit version in existing DC server.

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 14:31:58 +0200
Virgo P?rna via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 	Are samba data files compatible between 32 bit and 64  bit
> versions? So that I could safely uninstall 32 bit version (leaving
> existing data and configuration) and reinstall as 64 bit version?
> 
Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?

All you need to do is backup the data and the smb.conf on a Unix domain
member, install the new 64bit OS, install the Samba packages, replace
the smb.conf with your backed up copy, restore the data and away you go.

Rowland

On 07.03.2025 17:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> Not sure I fully understand this, surely if you are going to install a
> 64bit version of Samba, it will be on a 64bit OS ?
> 
	Since server has 32 bit Debian with amd64 kernel, I thought, that I 
could install samba under foreign amd64 architecture.  Unfortunately 
python dependencies stopped that. Even after replacing python with 64 
bit version, other architecture python any packages still wanted 32 bit 
version.

	Reinstalling 64 bit server is not currently possible...

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Virgo P?rna
virgo.parna at mail.ee